Rackspace Weekly Digest: November 15

From launching a new version of Rackspace Private Cloud to bringing our Performance Cloud Servers to two more regions, it was another busy week here at Rackspace. In this week’s digest, we cover all that and more.

What Do We Mean By ‘Fanatical Support’?We think of Fanatical Support as being one part great technology and one part great people. The interaction between the two is what enables our customers to leverage the power of the latest and best technologies and achieve their business goals.

How I Learned MongoDB
After seeing a lot of online discussion around non-relational databases, and having talked to a number of customers looking for help with MongoDB, Racker Slade Cozart knew that it was time to get his feet wet with non-relational databases. Here are some of the steps he took and resources I used to learn MongoDB.

Bringing OpenStack To Oregon State University
This week, Rackspace Training for OpenStack taught an OpenStack Fundamentals course at Oregon State University. Here, the director of the university’s Open Source Lab talks about OpenStack.